Category: In the Media
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Boston Globe: “My Life in Gaza”
by Mona El-Farra, July 10, 2006 The irony is almost beyond belief. Since the capture of an Israeli soldier on June 25, the Gaza Strip has been subjected to a large-scale military operation, what Israel calls “Summer Rain.” Because Israel bombed the power plant, and the area needs electricity to pump water, most of Gaza…
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Ha’aretz: “Israel bars Palestinian Americans for first time since 1967”
by Amira Hass, Ha’aretz, 10th July 2006 For the first time since 1967, Israel is preventing the entry of Palestinians with foreign citizenship, most of them Americans. Most of those refused entry are arriving from abroad, but have lived and worked for years in the West Bank. The Interior Ministry and Civil Administration made no…
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CUPE President: “Slurs will not silence us”
by Sid Ryan, [Canadian] Globe & Mail, July 7th When our union recently passed a resolution critical of policies of the government of Israel, it was savagely attacked in several quarters and labelled by many as anti-Semitic. When the Toronto Conference of the United Church of Canada, the largest Protestant church in the country, called…
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International Outcry At Israel’s Broad Offensive in the Gaza Strip
July 8th: In response to the incursion in the Gaza Strip, many national and international organizations have condemned Israel’s violence. This release is intended to highlight some of the entities speaking out in support of the Palestinian people and in opposition to Israel’s unchecked aggression. Please visit the following sites to read more about the…
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Haaretz: “Palestinians, leftists evacuated from disputed settlement edifice”
by Dan Keinan, Ha’aretz, 6th July Border Police forces evacuated left-wing activists and three Palestinian families from the West Bank village of Bil’in who occupied a building Thursday in the Matityahu East neighborhood of the Jewish settlement of Upper Modi’in. The squatters claim to possess documented proof that the property, which was built by Israeli…